What do Medical Waste Disposal Services Do and How They Can Help You?
Medical waste disposal services have a very important role in protecting the environment and ensuring that the people in the area they serve are healthy and free of infection. Although their task is similar to the one regular waste disposal companies have, considering the fact that medical waste is often contaminated with dangerous pathogens that could be introduced into the person’s bloodstream or different toxins that could be released into the air, ground or water, companies whose task is to dispose of medical waste have a slightly more work on their hands then their general waste disposal colleagues.
Medical waste disposal services are usually contracted by health care facilities such as hospitals, clinics, nursery homes, veterinary clinics, medical research centers, dentist and physician offices, but also by tattooists, body piercing salons, as these are the main generators, or producers of infections waste. Some of these produce only a small amount of medical waste, but there are those generators, like large city hospitals, that produce tons of infections and biohazardous waste per week, making their medical waste disposal needs great.
What Kind of Waste Medical Waste Disposal Services Deal with?
Typically, medical waste is classified into four categories:
- Infectious
- Hazardous
- Radioactive
- General
This classification is very important, as medical waste needs to be segregated properly and shouldn’t be mixed up, just like medical waste should not be disposed together with regular waste.
Infectious waste generally refers to any waste that can potentially cause an infection to humans and includes human or animal blood, blood products, bodily fluids, tissue and other body parts, blood-soaked items such as bandages, discarded surgical gloves and so on.
Hazardous waste includes medical waste that can injure a person or is hazardous in some other way and may not be infectious (although certain hazardous wastes can be infectious at the same time, if they have been exposed to human or animal bio material). Typical representative of hazardous waste is sharps waste, which include used and discarded needles, syringes, lancets, scalpel blades, razor blades, as well as various glassware used in health care facilities.
Radioactive waste is a product of cancer therapies, nuclear medicine treatments and certain medical equipment that utilizes radioactive isotopes.
General waste produced by health care facilities is no different from household or office waste and is not hazardous or infectious.
What do Medical Waste Disposal Service Need for Their Business?
In order to successfully accomplish their task, medical waste disposal services require some specialized equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE) for their employees, transport vehicles and containers in which to store medical waste during transport.
In addition, medical waste disposal companies also need a means to destroy or render the waste non-infective and non-hazardous, which they usually do using incinerators, autoclaves, chemical treatment or some other method.
Finally, these companies are also required to have all the proper business licenses and insurance in order to be able to offer their services to the customers at all.
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